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• xviii • Foreword (Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic) • (1990) • essay by Alberto Manguel
• 1 • The Child Who Believed • (1950) • short story by Grace Amundson
• 17 • It's a Good Life • (1953) • short story by Jerome Bixby
• 36 • The Door • (1939) • short story by E. B. White
• 42 • Mysterious Kôr • (1944) • short story by Elizabeth Bowen
• 57 • Nights at Serampore • (1970) • novella by Mircea Eliade (trans. of
  Nopți la Serampore^?Nopti la Serampore
  1940)
• 99 • The Dead Fiddler • (1968) • novelette by Isaac Bashevis Singer (trans. of Der toyter klezmer 1966)
• 127 • The Phoenix • (1940) • short story by Sylvia Townsend Warner
• 132 • The Spider • (1931) • novelette by Hanns Heinz Ewers (trans. of Die Spinne 1908)
• 155 • Changeling • (1990) • short story by Dorothy K. Haynes [as by Dorothy Haynes]
• 164 • The July Ghost • (1982) • short story by A. S. Byatt
• 180 • Poor Girl • (1955) • short story by Elizabeth Taylor
• 200 • Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched • (1922) • novelette by May Sinclair
• 222 • The Complete Gentleman • (1990) • short fiction by Amos Tutuola
• 231 • The Professor and the Mermaid • (1962) • novelette by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (trans. of La Sirena 1961)
• 255 • The Sausage • (1990) • short fiction by
  Friedrich Dürrenmatt^?Friedrich Duerrenmatt
• 258 • A Woman Seldom Found • (1956) • short story by William Sansom
• 262 • Mummy to the Rescue • (1950) • short story by Angus Wilson
• 269 • Aghwee the Sky Monster • (1977) • novelette by
  大江健三郎^?おおえけんざぶろう
  Kenzaburo Ōe
  Kenzaburo Oe
  (trans. of
  空の怪物アグイー^?Sora no kaibutsu Aguii
  ) [as by
  Kenzaburo Ōe^?Kenzaburo Oe
  ]
• 298 • Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe • (1986) • short story by Liliana Heker
• 305 • The Saint • (1931) • short story by Antonia White
• 313 • The Ghost of Firozsha Baag • (1986) • short story by Rohinton Mistry
• 328 • The Miracle of Ash Wednesday • (1968) • short story by
  Евгений Замятин^?Yevgeny Zamyatin
  (trans. of
  О чуде, происшедшем в Пепельную Среду^?O chude, proisshedshem v Pepel'nuyu Sredu
  1924) [as by Yevgeny Zamyatin]
• 336 • Heartburn • (1951) • short story by Hortense Calisher
• 347 • The Accident • (1936) • novelette by Ann Bridge
• 370 • The Old Woman • (1960) • short story by Joyce Marshall
• 383 • A Short Trip Home • (1927) • novelette by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 405 • The Brute • (1906) • short story by Joseph Conrad
• 426 • Mr Sleepwalker • (unknown) • short story by Ethel Wilson (variant of Mr. Sleepwalker 1961)
• 444 • A Self-Possessed Woman • (1975) • short story by Julian Barnes
• 460 • The Woman Who Talked to Horses • (1984) • short story by Leon Rooke
• 469 • The White Rooster • (1947) • short story by William Goyen
• 484 • The Labrenas • (1986) • novelette by Tommaso Landolfi
• 508 • The Dead Fish • (1965) • short story by Boris Vian (trans. of Les poissons morts 1947)
• 521 • Major Aranda's Hand • (1973) • short story by Alfonso Reyes (trans. of La mano del comandante Aranda 1955)
• 528 • Giving Birth • non-genre • (1977) • short story by Margaret Atwood
• 543 • The Jewbird • (1963) • short story by Bernard Malamud
• 553 • The Misanthrope • (1918) • short story by J. D. Beresford
• 563 • Bartleby • non-genre • (1853) • novelette by Herman Melville
• 600 • Private - Keep Out! • (1949) • short story by Philip MacDonald
• 616 • Dreams • (1988) • short story by Timothy Findley
• 638 • Mr Dombey, the Zombie • (1990) • short fiction by Geoffrey Drayton
• 642 • Why I Changed Into a Nightingale • (1987) • short story by Wolfgang Hildesheimer (trans. of Warum ich mich in eine Nachtigall verwandelt habe 1952)
• 648 • The Troll • (1935) • short story by T. H. White
• 660 • Two Words • (1990) • short story by Isabel Allende (trans. of Dos palabras 1989)
• 668 • Ch'ien-niang • (1990) • short fiction by
  陈玄祐^?Chen Xuanyou
  Ch'en Hsüan-yu
  [as by Chen Xuanyou]
• 671 • The Visiting Star • (1952) • novelette by Robert Aickman
• 696 • Ratan Babu and That Man • (1970) • short story by Satyajit Ray
• 711 • How It Happened • (1913) • short story by Arthur Conan Doyle
• 716 • Same Time, Same Place • (1963) • short story by Mervyn Peake
• 726 • The Enigma of Arrival • (1986) • short story by V. S. Naipaul
• 728 • Faithful Peter • (1945) • short story by Lion Feuchtwanger (trans. of Der treue Peter 1942)
• 736 • The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship • (1972) • short story by
  Gabriel García Márquez^?Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  (trans. of El último viaje del Buque Fantasma)
• 742 • The House-Hunters • (1963) • short story by Peter Green (1924-)
• 762 • The Yellow Wall Paper • (1937) • short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (variant of The Yellow Wall-Paper 1892)
• 780 • Eckhardt at a Window • (1987) • short story by Eric McCormack
• 792 • The Lefthanders • (1990) • short story by
  Günter Grass^?Guenter Grass
• 799 • Mr Arcularis • (unknown) • novelette by Conrad Aiken (variant of Mr. Arcularis 1931)
• 819 • The Times My Father Died • (1984) • short story by Yehuda Amichai
• 830 • The Haunted House • (1939) • short story by Luigi Pirandello (trans. of La casa del Granella 1905)
• 847 • The Finder • (1971) • short story by Elizabeth Spencer
• 866 • Desire • (1920) • short story by James Stephens
• 874 • The Miraculous Revenge • (1885) • short story by George Bernard Shaw
• 896 • Room of Blood • (1984) • short story by Brett Balon
• 904 • The Shadow • (1926) • short story by Ben Hecht
• 920 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke